The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Your voice, through the beelike hum, was remote and anxious. It kept sliding into the distance and vanishing. I spoke to you… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
